Frédéric Lassabe is assistant professor of computer science at the University of Bourgogne Franche-Comté (UBFC) in France. He is head of the computer science teaching department (32 staff and 450 students) at the Belfort-Montbéliard University of Technology (UTBM), and member of the the computer science department at the FEMTO-ST institute (UMR CNRS 6174). His research interests are Programmable Matter, Network resources allocation optimization, and mobility analysis. He has worked for 15 years on these topics. He led funded and contract research projects (geographical analysis platform, indoor positioning systems) with european union as well as French and U.S. companies.